So far I’ve been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?
JIMMY PAGEMy guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That’s me. That’s the way I play, and I don’t wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.
More Jimmy Page Quotes
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I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don’t really care about The Next Big Thing.
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If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.
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I think it’s time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.
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I don’t care what critics and other people think.
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I don’t like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, “I’m only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world.” I don’t like to say that to people either. But, I do think there’s a loss of romance.
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I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.
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Just because you play bass, doesn’t mean you have no presence.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there’s a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.
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You can’t buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.
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The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That’s a personal point of view but that’s the way I see it. I think that’s what it’s all about. The drive, the fire, the passion – it all comes out on the guitar.
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I don’t like being stuck in one situation, day to day.
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